sounded better in Die Hard

Same in Australia. The ABC edit screened on Channel 9 from 1983 - 89.

I would like to see cleaned up versions surface on a future release, but they were cut for a reason, they’re unnecessary.

I’d settle for having the 1979 JAWS ABC Television Cut restored and included as a bonus feature on a 50th anniversary 4K BD release.

Agreed. The deleted scenes as presented, are horrible quality. Would like to see them in 1080p and without the messed up frame rate, as seen on the 4K disc.

@cyrusq5999 Yeah, that's right. A director's cut as one of the "bonus discs" in a 50th anniversary box set.

You've got the directors cut already - it's the one that was released in the theatres! If Spielberg had wanted to re-release the film in a new cut then he'd have done so at some point over the last 50 years. If they reinstate these deleted scenes without his sign off and release it that way, then it's just a Studio Cut and it's a cash grab and shouldn't be supported. Jaws is a classic for a reason. Aside from a few issues (the timeline of Alex being eaten and his mother advertising a bounty reward and the capture of the tiger shark happen in far too small a window of time), the real shark footage is a bit unneccesary and some odd edits at the end that make the shark appear to teleport, it's as close to a perfect film as you'll ever get. The biggest complaint anyone has about JAWS is that the shark doesn't look real. Of course it doesnt; it looks like the shark in JAWS.

I also have a copy. I have the first US repeat from 1980. I also would very much like to see this ABC television edit get a home video release. The copy I have, is an old videotape recording. The colours have faded and shifted: people’s faces have turned red/pink, and there’s an ugly green cast to many of the scenes. It’s fascinating to see, for JAWS fans, but the picture quality makes it hard to fully enjoy. I don’t think Spielberg will ever let it happen, though. I don’t think he likes seeing re-edited and mutilated versions of his films out there, on home video. At least, most of the additional television material was released as “deleted scenes” in the bonus features.

As I said the ITV 1981 version has the missing scenes. If u look on line there a lot of web sites the say what we are saying .Remember not everybody in 1981 had an video recorder .So there going to be hard to find

@@tigershark9042 Yeah, I know, I think the scene has to do with when Hooper holds up the girls arm and says "this is what happens." It seems like there was more there and I think thats the part I saw. You actually got to see more of the autopsy and more of the remains of the girl. Did you see that part?

Hey, I found it for you. Took a few minutes but here it is. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7qBprmSya22Y5c.htmlsi=WAbAjmT8mnQ2sIJ5

​@@enigmaz9I always thought he got cut off mid sentence.

@@romerjusu3804 Yeah, I remember it as a kid, I only saw it one time but it apparently was powerful enough for me to remember it. If I remember correctly, they actually show you more of the remains, like half the torso or something like that. It was pretty brutal, I think it is right before he says, "This is what happens" holding up the girls arm.

No, I hate the deleted scenes. Put back in they ruin the fabulous pacing of the film. There is not a wasted moment in Jaws. The out takes screw that up.

Only the Quint music scene lol

I want the Dallas-screening Kitner death & Michael getting grabbed by the dying guy in the shark’s maw cut back in

You know I grew up with jaws. I’ve probably seen it 100’s of times and when cable first came out in the late 70’s early 80’s and we were lucky enough to get it. Well HBO was the only movie channel so they would obviously play what was the current movie when released there was no video stores then either. So I wouldn’t doubt jaws was on probably a couple times a day along with Star Wars so movies being better than cartoons I could literally speak along with the movies and would amaze aunts & uncles etc. but as I got older I noticed that sometimes when jaws was on some random channel it seemed to me that I didn’t remember some of the scenes. This happened multiple times over the years. Not knowing that there was different edited versions. I just thought maybe I wasn’t as sharp as I used to be. Then the 25th or 40th special edition blue ray came out and had all the deleted scenes etc. and that solved it for me. Any one else have same issue?

Scenes are deleted for a reason,,,!

Same - from 1983 to 1989, on Channel Nine (South Australia).

Na Spielberg will only release his cut of the movie.

Agreed. The expanded JAWS 2 is a better film, imo. The extended attack on the helicopter is an improvement. I don’t know why that sequence was edited?

Jaws 2 is boring as shit.

Now you're talkin

The rude gesture Hooper made behind Quint's back has been removed and replaced with two new additional shots of the fishing tackle box.

I had it in my head it was 1982, would have been on ATV in the Midlands area. I'd have been 8 at the time. Me and all the kids in our street were talking about watching it all day. I remember the ice cream van coming round just after half past 9, just as Quint was getting eaten. I distinctly remember the continuity announcer informing us that next week's film would be Hombre, starring Paul Newman. The disappointment was palpable, and I thought "can't you just put Jaws on again".

I've got the 1980 Jaws VHS, I'll re-watch it and see if it is the unedited version

THANKS FOR THE REPLY. IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE INTERNET THERE A FEW SITIES THAT REMMBER THIS SCENE

Goes swimming

Hooper didn't know it was a great white shark until he found the tooth.

I would swear I’ve seen that too.

Here is that scene with the arm. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7qBprmSya22Y5c.htmlsi=WAbAjmT8mnQ2sIJ5

Yes, that’s him falling into the water.

There’s an old recording of the first US repeat (from 1980 - which is where these scenes come from) that is floating about on the ‘net - sometimes with the ad-breaks intact, and sometimes edited out. Is that the version you payed for?

I would at least like to know what the full dialogue was.

be ait doesn't exist... there was just some extra dialogue there was never more footage of the remains as there's no remains onky the arm.. all a, myth

I’m the same age as you are and saw it the same time. My parents were divorced and my father took my brother and I to see it in theatre. Scarred me for a long time 😂

I have a 1980 VHS of Jaws, I'll have to re-watch it and see if it's the unedited version.

The television airing has been edited for language and violence. The additional scenes are there to expand the film (allowing for more ad-breaks).

Yes, it’s the noise Brody heard earlier, below, in the boat shed. It’s no mystery. In the script(s), Quint, got there first, and was interrupted by Hooper & Brody. That was him walking past. He then hid in the shadows and watched them autopsy the shark.

@@cyrusq5999 I bought a copy of the script and have never read it. I'm definitely going to have to read it though. That's really cool to know. Thanks!

The deleted scenes featured in this video, were first released on home video in 1995 (the 20th Anniversary LD boxed set). Only the last one (Quint’s fishing tackle box) has not been released to home video. These deleted scenes (apart from the tackle box) are on the LD / DVD / BD / BD 4K. The original 2000 25th Anniversary DVD and VHS releases didn’t have all of these scenes (the AMITY TOWN HALL deleted scene, with Quint's black truck, wasn’t included).

Sometimes when networks would buy a movie to air for broadcast, in order to make it fit more neatly into a 2- to 2.5-hour time slot, they would sometimes restore a few scenes deleted from the theatrical cut. In other cases, as with John Carpenter's Halloween, the primary cast and crew were brought back to shoot a few new scenes which were then added exclusively for broadcast. The latest blu-ray special edition of Halloween (from Anchor Bay) contains the scenes shot for TV as a bonus feature.

@@findlesplurb Thank you, that's interesting, I didn't know. I remember sitting there watching the airing of Jaws I mentioned above and thinking and then telling my mom, "This scene and that one aren't on our vhs copy."

@@findlesplurb Yes. The scenes were shot during the production of HALLOWEEN II. Curtis, has a bath towel wrapped around her head in one scene - to hide her short hair. She wore a wig for HALLOWEEN II.

Those are the scene cuts.

There's a deleted scene where his partner quits. It's not in this compilation because it wasn't in the TV version.

@@RaymondCastile I heard rumors but never saw it before until now. This channel posted it 2 years ago and yeah it deserved the cut.

I mean, deleted scenes so Spielberg had the same idea.

@@fynnthefox9078 The deleted scenes are junk. They're on the floor for a reason. I HATED the network debut. The film was a mess.